"Those movies can inform the God of War to step in a more bold direction," Dunstan told ShockTillYouDrop.

"Not to join those ranks, but to stand head and shoulders apart like other reinventions have done within that genre. The satisfying element is to look at those movies as a commentary on the genre and now say something different."

"Sony games, you think they'd be sacred about the origin story and all of that, but they were encouraging us to make it different from those movies and if that means going in dramatic shifts, they were cool of it," added Melton. "And they're involved."

The God of War franchise centres around Kratos, a Spartan warrior charged with a mission of vengeance against Ares that sees him killing and replacing the god.

Dunstan and Melton remained quiet about the details of their adaptation.